#geoffrey tempest

[multifru196]

The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli

[silvaelectoris]

Caligo's Literary Odyssey:

(the list will be updated)

Mythology and Epics 

The Ramayana i

Mahabharata 

The Iliad – Homer

The Odyssey – Homer

The Aeneid – Virgil

Beowulf 

The Poetic Edda 

The Tale of Igor's Campaign 

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

Religious and Spiritual Texts 

The Upanishads 

The Torah / Old Testament 

The Analects – Confucius

Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu

The New Testament 

The Confessions – St. Augustine

The Rule of Saint Benedict – Saint Benedict

Bustan and Gulistan – Saadi Shirazi

Summa Theologica (Selections) – Thomas Aquinas

The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri

The Essential Rumi

Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart

Philosophy 

The Republic – Plato

Dialogues: Symposium – Plato

Dialogues: Apology – Plato

Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle

Politics – Aristotle

On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) – Lucretius

On Duties (De Officiis) – Cicero

On the Shortness of Life – Seneca

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

Discourse on the Method – René Descartes

Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes

Ethics – Baruch Spinoza

Two Treatises of Government – John Locke

The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith

The Spirit of the Laws – Montesquieu

The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant

Phenomenology of Spirit – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

On Liberty – John Stuart Mill

Capital – Karl Marx

Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche

The Interpretation of Dreams and more – Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung’s works

Being and Time – Martin Heidegger

The Revolt of the Masses – José Ortega y Gasset

Being and Nothingness – Jean-Paul Sartre

The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus

The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir

Philosophical Investigations – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm

A Theory of Justice – John Rawls

Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault

Classical Literature and Drama 

Oedipus Rex – Sophocles

Antigona – Sophocles

Medea – Euripides

Lysistrata – Aristophanes

The Clouds – Aristophanes

The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) – Ovid

Metamorphoses – Ovid

The Histories – Herodotus

Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais

The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio

The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer

Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes

Hamlet – William Shakespeare

King Lear – William Shakespeare

The Tempest – William Shakespeare

Macbeth – William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare

Sonnets – William Shakespeare

Henry V – William Shakespeare

Historical and Political Texts

The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli

Utopia – Thomas More

Essays – Michel de Montaigne

The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi

The Art of War – Sun Tzu

Adventure and Historical Fiction 

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo

Ivanhoe – Walter Scott

Quentin Durward – Walter Scott

The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

The Deerslayer – James Fenimore Cooper

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

The Headless Horseman – Thomas Mayne Reid

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

The Mysterious Island – Jules Verne

Captain Grant’s Children – Jules Verne

Fifteen-Year-Old Captain – Jules Verne

Captain Rip-Head – Louis Boussenard

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) – Jerome K. Jerome

The Phantom Ship – Frederick Marryat

Romanticism and Gothic

The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Emma – Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

The Professor – Charlotte Brontë

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Portrait of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Realism and Social Novels 

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

Moby-Dick – Herman Melville

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

Middlemarch – George Eliot

The Human Comedy: Gobseck – Honoré de Balzac

The Human Comedy: Father Goriot – Honoré de Balzac

The Human Comedy: Beatrice – Honoré de Balzac

The Human Comedy: The Woman of Thirty – Honoré de Balzac

The Human Comedy: Colonel Chabert – Honoré de Balzac

Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol

Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev

Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin

American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser

Martin Eden – Jack London

The Sea-Wolf – Jack London

White Fang – Jack London

Hearts of Three – Jack London

The Scarlet Plague – Jack London

Boule de Suif – Guy de Maupassant

Dear Friend – Guy de Maupassant

The Burden of Human Passions – W. Somerset Maugham

Modernist and Postmodernist Literature

Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman

The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe

In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust

Dubliners – James Joyce

Ulysses – James Joyce

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

The Trial – Franz Kafka

The Castle – Franz Kafka

Letters to Milena - Franz Kafka

Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

The Stranger – Albert Camus

To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Plague – Albert Camus

The Fall – Albert Camus

The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann

Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann

Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse

The Glass Bead Game – Hermann Hesse

Demian – Hermann Hesse

The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami

Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre

The Wall – Jean-Paul Sartre

Science Fiction and Fantasy 

The Time Machine – H. G. Wells

The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells

The Amphibian Man – Alexander Belyaev

Professor Dowell’s Head – Alexander Belyaev

Scarlet Sails – Alexander Grin

We – Yevgeny Zamyatin

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury

Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury

Solaris – Stanisław Lem

Roadside Picnic – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis

Discworld – Terry Pratchett

Harry Potter – J.K. Rowling

Eragon – Christopher Paolini

ACOTAR ACOMAF etc. Sarah J. Maas

Twilight – Stephenie Meyer

Detective and Mystery

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (all) – Arthur Conan Doyle

Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

War and Anti-War Literature 

All Quiet on the Western Front

Arc de Triomphe 

Three Comrades

The Promised Land

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

The Spark of Life 

The Night in Lisbon

The Black Obelisk 

– Erich Maria Remarque

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles

Dystopian and Political Allegory 

Animal Farm – George Orwell

1984 – George Orwell

Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

The Black Prince – Ayn Rand

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Japanese Literature 

The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu

The Pillow Book – Sei Shōnagon

Man'yōshū 

Kokin Wakashū

Shin Kokin Wakashū 

Poems of Saigyō

Matsuo Bashō 

Botchan – Natsume Sōseki

Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata

Rashōmon and more – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

All works of Osamu Dazai – Osamu Dazai (especially No Longer Human)

In Praise of Shadows - Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

Confessions of a Mask and more - Yukio Mishima

A Personal Matter – Kenzaburō Ōe

Ukrainian Literature 

Kobzar – Taras Shevchenko

The Forest Song – Lesya Ukrainka

Russian Poetry 

Poetry of Anna Akhmatova – Anna Akhmatova

Poetry of Boris Pasternak – Boris Pasternak

Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva – Marina Tsvetaeva

Poetry of Sergei Yesenin – Sergei Yesenin

Poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky – Vladimir Mayakovsky

Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka – Nikolai Gogol

Children’s and Young Adult Literature (just which I want to list here)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

Non-Fiction and Science 

On Painting – Leon Battista Alberti

A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft

Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Silent Spring – Rachel Carson

A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

and many more. I give up.

Erotic Literature 

Venus in Furs – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

New Age and Mysticism

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Works of Carlos Castaneda – Carlos Castaneda

[frankingsteinery]

(for the ask game from a few days ago) could you do Victor for 2, 12, 15 and 24

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

i had to sit and think because this one was so hard to narrow down. on a surface level i find all sorts of things about him endearing from his mannerisms to his speech patterns, but i think the thing that got me hooked on victor as a character was how emotionally demonstrative he is, particularly for a male protagonist. this also extends generally to his love for nature, for his friends, and his siblings (disregarding the incestuous implications of his relationship with elizabeth...)

i think this was only intensified for me when i started delving into frankenstein academic essays and analysis and then, by extension, the frankenstein fandom, and found that en masse it was people criticizing victor for just what interested me to him in the first place: being emotional, and therefore somehow melodramatic, overreacting, self-centered, egotistical, etc. it was this kind of climate of victor-hate that pushed me to make a tumblr account in the first place. someone had to be the sole victor defender in this barren wasteland

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

this is silly and probably not the serious answer you were looking for but like 2 years ago a dear friend of mine and i were joking about how you could catch victor frankenstein in a mouse trap and ever since then his assigned fursona in my head has been a mouse:

15. What's your favorite ship for this character?

by far its waltonstein (robert x victor). im aware clervalstein is vastly more popular, and while im charmed by it in-canon i dont find most depictions of it to my taste. i don't see their relationship as wholly reciprocated–one-sided on walton's end–which is part of the reason why i like their dynamic so much: its established that walton romanticizes the unobtainable, chases the unknown, and that's why he hangs all his hopes on things he cannot feasibly reach. first becoming a famous poet and going down with the greats, then sailing to find the northern passage despite being an inexperienced captain, all the while hoping for this impossibly idealistic image of a companion who would be perfectly tailored to his interests and manners, and then, against all reason, he finds this in victor, wherein victor becomes an extension of this habit, who is dying and too hung up in the past and on martyring himself, because everyone who has grown close to him has been hurt for it, so he cannot love again, or at least in the way walton wants. yet victor still has a reciprocated interest and finds a friend in him, even shares the same sentiment of the importance of friendship, but like he says no man can "be to him as clerval was." its very much wrong place/time but the right person.

ive said this before but i think, too, that if victor had recovered and lived than walton may fall a little less in love with victor. their relationship was founded on their dynamic of sick/caretaker, and beyond that, victor would have already exhausted his story, so there's no air of mystery around him anymore–nothing for walton to glorify or romanticize. ultimately i think even if they had the best of intentions and loved each other, they could not have a healthy or fully mutual relationship, and part of the appeal to me is this tragedy!

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

im drawing a bit of a blank on this one because no other character encompasses just what victor Is to me, but theres a whole host of victor-esque characters i could name because he is the literal foundation for the mad scientist archetype. if i was pressed i think id say geoffrey tempest from sorrows of satan by marie corelli (beyond his blatant misogny), and i remember some parts of emil sinclairs early narration in demian by herman hesse reminded me of victor. lucifer/satan from paradise lost also, particuarly the bit where he says he cannot enjoy the beauty of earth for the suffering of his fall, but that almost feels like a cop-out answer.

lastly–and this one is completely unfounded–itd have to be double dee from EEnE.

[mystery-of-arkham-asylum]

I have brought the 100 Classic Book Collection DS game. (It was £1 and had a few book I wanted to read on it so decided why not?) Here is the list of books that it includes. Can people convince me to read some of the other books that are on there.

I have read | I want to read | 🦝 I have the physical copy to

🦝 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Emma - Jane Austen

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

Persuasion - Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

The Professor - Charlotte Brontë

Shirley - Charlotte Brontë

Villette - Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan

Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett

🦝 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

🦝 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll

The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

🦝 The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge

The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper

🦝 Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

🦝 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Hard Times - Charles Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

Adam Bede - George Eliot

Middlemarch - George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard

Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - Victor Hugo

Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. - Washington Irving

Westward Ho! - Charles Kingsley

Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence

The Phantom Of The Opera - Gaston Leroux

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

White Fang - Jack London

Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

Tales of Mystery & Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe

Ivanhoe - Walter Scott

Rob Roy - Walter Scott

Waverley - Walter Scott

🦝 Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare

As You Like It - William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Henry V - William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

King Lear - William Shakespeare

Love's Labour's Lost - William Shakespeare

Macbeth - William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

Othello - William Shakespeare

Richard III - William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare

The Tempest - William Shakespeare

Timon of Athens - William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare

🦝 Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

🦝 Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

🦝 Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

Vanity Fair William - Makepeace Thackeray

Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope

🦝 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

🦝 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne

🦝 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

[fromtheboundlesssea]

W&B

You already told us the dragons names, can we (by we I mean me) know their colors?

Pleeeeeaaaaaasssseeeeee

•Celia - no dragon

• Aemond - Vhagar (same as canon)

•Aegon - Sunfyre (same as canon)

• Helaena - Dreamfyre (same as canon)

• Rhaena - Morning (same as canon)

•Laeyla - Dreamwalker (dark blue with black wings)

• Jaehaerys - Vermax (same as canon)

•Cassandra - Jelmazma (black with golden veins)

•Baela - Moondancer (same as canon)

•Lucien - Arrax (same as canon)

•Aemma - Galewind (grey with black veins)

•Alys - Tempest (grey and blue wings)

• Daeron - Tessarion (same as canon)

•Geoffrey - Tyraxes (same as canon)

•Elaena - Stormcloud (grey)

[anime-academia]

Books read in 2024 (plus ratings)

江戸川 乱歩/ Edogawa Ranpo 孤島の鬼 (Kotō no Oni)/ The Demon of the Lonely Isle [trans. Alexis J. Brown] (10/10) Utterly unwell over this one. The last part makes me want to cry every time I think about it. The Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows [trans. Ian Hughes](7/10) Fun reads! The first one is an Akechi Kogoro mystery iirc. The Phantom Doctor (7/10) Also Akechi-sensei and fun, but nowhere near as brain rewiring as Koto no Oni. Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination [trans. James B. Harris](7/10) A collection of some of Ranpo's works. Some were good, some were mid, and some were just Junji Ito levels of weird.

Shakespeare The Tempest (8/10) Fun, but coloniser mentality much. Did read it in conjunction with Jane Eyre, not actually reading Robinson Crusoe, and reminiscing over Wide Sargasso Sea, so that was actually very fun for the brain. Twelfth Night (Or, What You Will) (10/10) I need to direct a production of this play so badly. Or just let me be Cesario. As You Like It (7/10) Fun but not really my vibe.

The Martian by Andy Weir (9/10) Not usually a sci-fi girlie, but this was delightful to read.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (8/10) Delightful, amazing, BBC Sherlock can actually take the Reinbach plunge for the gross mischaracterisation of Sherlock.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (7/10) Good, it's a classic for a reason. I would recommend reading Wide Sargasso Sea along with JE.

人間失格 (Ningen Shikkaku)/No Longer Human by 太宰 治/ Dazai Osamu [rather crusty pdf, I don't remember who the translator is] (8/10) Incredible. Reminded me of reading The Bell Jar. It did make me really sad tho, ngl, but there's also a sense of recognition.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (10/10) Loved this!

镇魂 (Zhèn Hún)/ Guardian by Priest (6/10) Was not vibing with the main story. Miscommunication and just general ridiculousness imo. B-plot was fun and Changcheng is so baby and sweet. I love him. 3 of the 6 stars are for him, the rest are for the other characters excluding MC and not-actually-a-professor. 2 books

川口 俊和/ Toshikazu Kawaguchi [trans. Geoffrey Trousselot] さよならも言えないうちに/ Before We Say Goodbye 思い出が消えないうちに/ Before Your Memory Fades この嘘がばれないうちに/ Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe (7/10) for all. They were good, but not rent-free levels of good.

White Teeth by Zadie Smith (7/10) It was good.

墨香铜臭 (Mo Xiang Tong Xiu) [Trans: Seven Seas] 人渣反派自救系统 (Rén zhā fǎnpài zìjiù xìtǒng)/Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (9/10) So much about this one. I think about it at least once a week, probably. This was 4 books iirc 魔道祖师 (Módào Zǔshī)/ Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (8/10) Love the political intrigue. I will read this again at some point so that I can enjoy it while understanding what's happening. Everything can be explained by the answer "Jin Ling's uncle". Honestly, probably some of my favourite characters are in here. 5 books 天官赐福 (Tiān Guān Cì Fú)/ Heaven Official's Blessing (8/10) Yeah, filing and maths is difficult. Intriguing plot as well and as with MDZS, got stabbed in the heart several times. this is like 8 books long T^T

二哈和他的白猫师尊 (Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun)/ The Husky and His White Cat Shizun by 肉包不吃肉 (Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou)/ Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat [Trans: Seven Seas] (7/10) I was ready to give up, but the actual plot was interesting. and there's time travel. idk how many.. 3 or 4

女将军和长公主 (Nu Jiangjun he Zhang Gōngzhu)/Female General, Eldest Princess by 请君莫笑 (Please Don’t Laugh) [Trans: Melts and Eiko] (8/10) Plot is good. Stressed me tf out though ngl. Definite recommendation. Like watching shoujo after too much shounen. I think about this one frequently as well.

The Twelve Week Year by Brian P. Moran & Michael Lennington Idk how to rate this, but it's been helpful and I wanna try this method out this year.

Ghastly Tales from the Yotsuya Kaidan by Saitō Takashi (7/10) Wanted to kill a lot of people in this myself. That being said, the story is told nicely.

The Snows of Kilimajaro by Ernest Hemingway (7/10) Collection. Some were good, some were mid. His life was absolutely wild. Idk how Hemingway survived as long as he did tbh.

ダンジョン飯/ Dungeon Meshi by 九井諒子/Ryoko Kui (9/10) Loved this!! Suck you in with fun fantasy and then damn, the curtains are not just blue. 14 volumes

Depilautumn by Nakahara Chūya [trans. Kenneth L. Richard & John L. Riley] (8/10). Poetry Anthology, fun but not all were a vibe.

River of Stars by Yosano Akiko [trans. Sam Hamill & Keiko Matsui Gibson) (8/10) Delightful and Yosano was pretty damn amazing!

[lboogie1906]

Joseph Marcell (August 18, 1948) is a British actor and comedian. He is known for his role as Geoffrey Butler, the butler on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-96).

Born in Saint Lucia, he moved to the UK, when he was 9 years old and grew up in Peckham, South London. He lives in Banstead, Surrey.

He studied speech and dance at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he appeared in productions of Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has appeared in feature films and on television in Britain. He serves on the board of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London where he is featured in a nationwide production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear.

He played Gonzalo in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in May 2016. He played Solly Two Kings in the play by August Wilson, Gem of the Ocean at the Tricycle Theatre, in London, in January 2016. He began rehearsals as Titus Andronicus, in July 2017, for the La Grande Shakespeare Company, in La Grande, Oregon. He married Judith M. Midtby (1975-80). He married Joyce T. Walsh (1995). He has two children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[theofficersacademy]

Geoffrey has arrived!

Welcome to the Officers Academy! You have been assigned to the Knights of Seiros.

Please remember to follow the Masterlist and all your fellow colleagues. You have been granted an Iron Lance, the Tempest Lance combat art, and Dexterity+ to start your journey with. We look forward to seeing the growth of your true potential.

May the Goddess light your path.

- Mod N

[fire-emblem-supports]

Reviving Classic Seasonal Banners

I thought it was interesting that FEH not only brought back an old seasonal theme with the August yukata banner this year, but also basically duplicated its original lineup (aside from the Harmonic, which the original predated) -- Fates princes (Ryoma and Xander/Takumi and Leo) + Tellius girls (Micaiah and Elincia/Mia and Lucia). So I wanted to see what it may be like if they were to take a similar philosophy with some other lost banner concepts.

Starting with the oldest seasonal banner to have never returned -- the original Performing Arts banner, separate even from the other "dancer" banners we got (ballroom and the OG yukatas), focused on canon dancers and their sons in outfits inspired by Azura's Cyrkensian songstress outfit from Conquest. If we pivot from sons to other relatives, we get pretty easy candidates out of Tethys, Ewan, Ninian, Nils, Reyson, and Leanne, giving us a nice mixture of popular but underrepresented characters (+ Ninian). Pair off two of them as the duo -- my vote would be Nils + Ninian, keeping the most represented character on the banner on the sidelines, but Leanne + Reyson would at least keep Ewan, who is the closest in concept to the original banner's Inigo and Shigure as a non-dancer -- and you have a banner that I think would go over pretty well.

Duo Nils + Ninian

5-star Tethys

5-star Leanne

Demote Ewan

Tempest Reyson

Performing Arts's sister concept, Ballroom, got two runs before being deleted. While both focused on Jugdral, the first combined it with Valentia + one Tellius guest star while the second stuck to a full Genealogy line-up. Since copying the setup of the latter would probably land pretty similarly to the later Scions banner, we'll stick to the former. Take a canon Valentian couple (Berkut and Rinea become Clive and Mathilda) and a doomed romance from Thracia (Ishtar and Reinhardt become Linoan and Deen) and you've already got a strong list of characters. The advent of duos allows our random third wheel to get a dance partner of her own, so we switch out Nephenee for Sheena (in honor of her gorgeous Cipher card) and let Samson tag along. (Alternatively, sticking to Tellius, you could get Elincia + Geoffrey or Lucia, Ilyana + Zihark or Mia, Mia + Rhys, Mist + Boyd or Jill, or, God forbid, Astrid + Malakov. Personally, I like Sheena's Cipher card, lol.)

Duo Clive + Mathilda

5-star Linoan

5-star Sheena

Demote Deen

Tempest Samson

Next, we have the first of two experimental banners from 2019, and by far the more controversial: Hot Springs. This banner was lambasted for bringing in more alts of the Fates royals during a time when they had the monopoly on alts, having oversexualized younger(-looking) characters, skipping over male candidates aside from one, and slotting its most popular candidate into the Tempest Trial with bad art. With the strongest Fates candidates for a similar setup already covered, we pivot to the new overrepresented group and slot its most popular character in as a backpack (and for fun, let's say drawn by cuboon) for:

Duo F!Byleth + Edelgard

5-star Dimitri

5-star Sothis

Demote Flayn

Tempest Rhea

The second 2019 banner is Picnics, which was generally better received but whose weirdness couldn't compete with the following year's anniversary celebration of Archanea children. Picnics gave some much-needed representation to Valentia in addition to some underrepresented Fates characters (with Felicia and Flora's first alts and Leo's second, after he was left out from Hot Springs). A similar concept with the addition of a Harmonic gives us:

Harmonic Selkie + Delthea

5-star Clair

5-star Subaki

Demote Setsuna

Tempest Valbar

Pirates, the deceased sister to the ongoing Ninjas concept, also saw two runs before being unceremoniously killed off, making it difficult to perfectly recreate; however, it did have a few consistent elements: Heroes villains (Veronica followed by Surtr), Tellius birds (Tibarn followed by Naesala and Vika), Fates royals (Xander followed by Hinoka and Camilla), canon pirates (the original line-up in its entirety minus the Harmonic, but carried by Lifis in the second year), and a mostly mixed setup (year 2's duo and Tellius birds being the only duplication). We keep the Fates royal duo (Takumi and Leo over Xander/Hinoka and Camilla), keep going in chronological order for Heroes villains (Hel over Veronica/Surtr), bring along the last canon member of the Pirate class (Dart), and let Tibarn's boyfriend match him (Reyson over Tibarn/Naesala). The last slot is a wildcard that could go to another bird (probably Janaff, Ulki, or Nealuchi) or a random character (maybe Edain, Dew, or Patty to match Brigid?), but because this is a male-heavy banner already and there's not enough of a pattern to definitively recreate (though there is something to be said for Vika being another character with no base version, supporting Janaff/Ulki/Nealuchi), I'm going to double up on Heroes villains to give Eitri a spot. (Should probably go to Freyja, but she's gotten an alt before.)

Duo Takumi + Leo

5-star Hel

5-star Eitri

Demote Reyson

Tempest Dart

September's dancers became, for one year only, a celebration of all things Genealogy (+ a little Thracia), which would eventually morph into the "tribal" banners (I guess they're all celebrations of culture, but I wish they hadn't committed so hard to Fates... hopefully this year?) Unlike it's tribal counterparts, the Festival of the Twelve focused entirely on Jugdral's cast, with no characters invited along to experience the different culture, and also making it basically a Gen 2 equivalent to the Jugdral Ballroom banner (as I alluded to above). As such, a 1:1 recreation switching in Gen 1 equivalents would be pretty boring (duo Sigurd/Quan, 5-star Eldigan, 5-star Ayra, demote Deirdre, Tempest Ethlyn). So we'll stick just to the idea of Gen 2: bring in the last remaining son of the school trio (Ares over Seliph), a character who counts as both Thracia and Genealogy in the Harmonic (Ced over Leif), and a Gen 1 character who returns as a mentor (Finn over Lewyn), then fill in the rest with other Crusader descendants, and you get:

Harmonic Tine + Ced

5-star Ares

5-star Finn

Demote Altena

Tempest Saias

Next, Pirates' first replacement: Thieves. The Thieves banner was another pretty poorly-received banner because of its odd lineup, overly sexualized outfits, and most popular character getting a demote slot seemingly just because he was male (his only competition being the duo's backup). That said, the weirdness of it makes it pretty fun to recreate, lol. We've got a moderately (or at least relatively) popular unit who was a demote on her debut banner (switch Cath for Patty), an NPC outshining her playable counterpart[s] (switch Leila for Ursula), a male thief who generally outranks the females on the banner but gets demoted anyway (switch Sothe for Gaius), a male thief without a base version (switch Rickard for Astolfo), and a Duo with so little cohesion it might as well be a Harmonic including one arguably overrepresented character as the backpack (switch Nina/Kagero for Petra/Ingrid).

Duo Petra + Ingrid

5-star Patty

5-star Ursula

Demote Gaius

Tempest Astolfo

And lastly, our other Pirates replacement. Teatime has very similar energy to Picnics both in its character choices, reception, and overall feel, and I could see it coming back this year considering the Yukata banner didn't do great. It gave us alts from an underrepresented game (Genealogy) as well as underrepresented characters from an overrepresented game, much like Picnics did. We can pretty much do the exact same lineup by switching in a different CYL winner with surprisingly few alts (Marianne over Lysithea), a male Three Houses character closely associated with one of the lords (Dedue over Ferdinand), the poster child for Genealogy alts but Gen 2 version this time (Julia over Sigurd), a popular Genealogy character who's been treated pretty poorly (Seliph over Tailtiu), and a Genealogy character who is long overdue for their first alt paired with a tangentially similar Three Houses character (Finn and Rodrigue over Ayra and Mercedes). Personally, I'd rather see the hypothetical next Teatime lineup tackle a different pair of games (Valentia and Engage, please), but this feels more in the spirit of this post.

Harmonic Finn + Rodrigue

5-star Marianne

5-star Seliph

Demote Dedue

Tempest Julia

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Pray Until Something Happens:

The King's Speech

Today's inspiration comes from:

PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens

by Jurgen Matthesius

"'Where the word of a king is, there is power; and who may say to him, “What are you doing?”' — Ecclesiastes 8:4

"In the 2010 Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech, actor Colin Firth plays the part of King George VI, whose ascension to the throne of Great Britain would be accompanied by his severe speech impediment. King George knows that to rule effectively and be taken seriously, he must have command over his diction. He hires a speech therapist played by Geoffrey Rush, who gives the king the confidence to enunciate words that he formerly struggled with, helping him to recover both his cadence and his self-assurance. It is an incredibly moving film, one that highlights the importance and power of the spoken word.

God, who is the King of kings, creates everything by the Word of His mouth. In fact, His Word is supreme in the universe. Nothing and no one can undo what He has spoken and what He has declared. In Genesis chapter one, God creates the heavens and the earth, light and life, by nothing more than speaking. His Word is the beginning and the end of all things.

PUSH prayer is prayer that is based upon the Word of God. If you can see God’s Word as seed, you will see that within this seed is the will of God. Every seed reproduces after its own kind. It cannot do otherwise. An orange seed cannot produce bananas and an apple seed cannot produce watermelons. This is because within each seed is its DNA.

Each word of God contains the DNA of God within it and it is sent forth for no other reason than to establish or bring about His will. Prayer is most potent when we speak and declare the Word of God.

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. — Isaiah 55:11

The Word of God is so powerful that the Bible says in Matthew 13 that when the Word of God is sown and the recipient does not understand it, the devil comes immediately and snatches away what was sown (Matthew 13:19). The devil is terrified of the Word of God because he has no power over it. However, he has the power to snatch it away and he attacks it, resisting it relentlessly. When we speak God’s Word we are engaging in spiritual warfare. The devil hates the Word because it brings forth light and diminishes darkness.

Prayer is most potent when we speak and declare the Word of God. It acts like a battering ram, pushing back the siege walls of the kingdom of darkness. It releases into the atmosphere that which overcomes darkness, bringing forth light. Jesus spoke into a tomb and a dead man walked out. In the middle of a tempest, Jesus stood on the bow of the ship and said “Peace, be still!” and immediately the storm subsided and the sea became as calm and smooth as glass (Mark 4:39). PUSH is prayer that is based upon the Word of God, fueled by the Word of God, carrying the goal of accomplishing the Word of God."

Excerpted with permission from PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens by Jurgen Matthesius, copyright Thomas Nelson.

[davidfurlongtheatre]

Cast announcement in The Wind and The Rain at the Finborough Theatre

Happy to announce I've been cast in a unique Finborough Theatre ReDiscovery season of one of the biggest hits of the 1920s !

Merton Hodge’s The Wind and the Rain directed by Geoffrey Beevers opens at the Finborough Theatre for a 4 week limited season

Performance dates 11 July- 5 August 2023

🎟️ https://finboroughtheatre.co.uk/production/the-wind-and-the-rain/

CAST ANNOUNCEMENT

The first professional London production for over 80 years

Edinburgh, 1933.

Charles Tritton, an eighteen-year-old medical student about to begin his studies, arrives at Mrs McFie’s boarding house.

Before him lie five years’ of swotting for exams and sweating over dissections, alongside his fellow residents – eternal student Gilbert Raymond who would rather be drinking and chasing girls than passing his exams; the studious sportsman and frightful bore, John Williams; and the sage older postgraduate student, Frenchman Dr Paul Duhamel.

Charles begins his course counting down the days until he can return to the life he’s left behind in London, and Jill, the girl whom he has promised to marry.

Until sculptor Anne Hargreaves walks into his study…

And Charles is suddenly torn between the life that has been mapped out for him and the unexpected possibility of another path…

Inspired by the playwright’s own experiences of training at Edinburgh Medical School, and arguably by his own love life as a bisexual man in the 1930s, The Wind and the Rain is a gentle but universal coming-of-age of student life – and growing up.

This cast includes Lynton Appleton (Richard III at Royal Shakespeare Company); Harvey Cole(Mercury Fur, Much Ado About Nothing and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Guildhall School of Music and Drama); David Furlong (Break of Noon at Finborough Theatre and Emmeline at The Cockpit and UK tour); Mark Lawrence (Hedda Gabler and The Tempest at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art); Jenny Lee (The Straw Chair, I Didn’t Always Live Here, The Flou’ers of Edinburgh, Little Red Hen at the Finborough Theatre and It Is Easy To Be Dead and its subsequent transfer to the Trafalgar Studios, Òran Mór, Glasgow and the Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen); Joe Pitts (Spring Awakening at Almeida Theatre); Naomi Preston-Low (nominated for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ at the British Short Film Awards); and Helen Reuben (King Rodolfo at Soho Theatre and Love All, Savior and Pictures of Dorian Gray at Jermyn Street Theatre).

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[flowerish-cherry-blue]

the sorrows of satan by marie corelli

«if you discover evil suggestions in my music, the evil, i fear, must be in your own nature.»

[notjaneaustensemma]

sometimes lit crit just absolutely throws you off, like how we’re apparently

his what now?

[bluseum]

also why is everyone in the skellington book called [place name] [latin word] [adjective]

Derek very evidently names characters like any good lazy D&D player, random name generators and dictionaries. He doesn't seem to see a problem with

Abyssinia

Adam Brate

Adedayo Akinde

Adrasdos

Adrian Sykes

Adrienna Shade

Ajuoga

Alan

Alan (Boyle Solutions)

Alan Brennan

Alena Metz

Alesha Walsh

Alexander Remit

Alexander Slake

Alice Edgley

Aloysius Vespers

Amalia

Amity

Amity's Wife

Anathem Mire

The Ancients

Anguish

Anna

Annie Brennan

Anton Shudder

Arabella Wicked

Argeddion

Argento

Argus

Armiger Fop

Arthur Dagan

Ashione

Ashley Hubbard

Aspen

Assegai

Category:Assistants

Audoen

Auger Darkly

Aurnia

Auron Tenebrae

Aurora Jane

Category:Australians

Avatar

Avaunt

Axelia Lukt

Axle

Azzedine Smoke

Badstreet

Bagatelle

Baritone

Baron Vengeous

Bartholomew

Basher

Batu

The Beast

Bennet Troth

Benzel Travestine

Bernadette Maguire

Bernard Sult

Bertrand Solus

Beryl Edgley

Billy-Ray Sanguine

Binder Firm

Bison Dragonclaw

Black Annis

Boiler

Brennock

Brides of Blood Tears

Bridget

Brobding

Brock

Bruno

Bubba Moon

Burgundy Dalrymple

The Butcher

Byron Grace

Cadaver Cain

Cadaverous Gant

Caelan

Caisson

Caius Caviler

Cameron Light

Cark

Carol Edgley

Carol Edgley (Reflection)

Cassandra Pharos

Caste

Cathy

Cathy (The Button)

Category:Cats

Cerise

Ceryen

Cerys

Charivari

Charlie Smith

Child of the Faceless

China Sorrows

China's Assistant

China's Grandmother

Chrissy Brennan

Christophe Nocturnal

Civet

Clagge

Clarabelle

Cleaver

Clement Gale

Clerihew Montgomery

Coda Quell

Colleen Stint

Collup

Colm Muldoon

Conor Delaney

Corrival Deuce

Cothernus Ode

Crab

Craddock Sirroco

Crasher

Crepuscular Vies

Creyfon Signate

Crystal Edgley

Cu na Gealaí Duibhe

Dacanay

Daffyd Maybury

Dai Maybury

Daisy

Damocles Creed

Danny

Darian Vector

Darquesse

Dasher

Daveth Maybury

Davina Marr

Davit Maybury

Davon Maybury

Deacon Maybury

Death Monkey

Dedrich Wahrheit

Delafonte Mien

Desmond Edgley

Destrier

Detective Harris

Devoted

Dexter Vex

Dicer

Dima

Dionysus Pertinax

Doctor Whorl

Donegan Bane

Doran Purcell

Dragunov

Dreylan Scarab

Dubhóg Ni Broin

Duenna

The Dullahan

Dusk

Eachan Meritorious

Eamon Campbell

Eamon Pearce

Ed Stynes

Eddie Sullivan

Edgley Tempest

Edwina

Eliza Scorn

Elsie O'Brien

Elwood Satchel

Emmeline Darkly

Emmett Peregrine

Category:End of the World characters

Category:Energy-Throwers

The Engineer

Ephraim Tungsten

Erskine Ravel

Esryn Vanguard

Etta Faulkner

Evoric Cudgel

Faceless Ones

Father Reynolds

Fergus Edgley

Ferrente Rhadaman

Filament Sclavi

Finbar Wrong

Fintan Muldoon

Flaring

Fletcher Renn

Flint

Forby

Frightening Jones

Gall

Gary Price

Gavin Praetor

Ged

Category:Generals

Geoffrey Scrutinous

Gepard

Gepard Voke

Geraint Mizzle

Gerontius

Ghastly Bespoke

Ghastly Bespoke's father

Ghastly Bespoke's mother

Gladys

Glass

Gleeman Shakespeare

Gordon Edgley

Grace Kelly

Gracious O'Callahan

Graft

Gratio Erato

Gregory Castallan

Gregory Day

Greta Dapple

Griff

Grim

The Grotesquery

Gruesome Krav

Habergeon

Hansard Kray

Hapathy

Harmony

Hayley Skirmish

Hidalgo Bolt

Hieronymus Deadfall

Hoc

Hokum Pete

Hollow Men

Hopeless

Horts

The Hound

Hrishi

Hutchinson

Ian Moore

Ieni

Illori Reticent

Imogen

Infected

Isara

Isidora Splendour

Ivy

Jack Irons

Jackie Earl

Jajo Prave

James Hubbard

Jaron Gallow

Jason Randal

Jasper

Jenan Ispolin

Jeremiah Wallow

Jerry Houlihan

Jerry Ordain

Jethro

The Jitter Girls

Johann Starke

Joost

Kaiven

Kallista Pendragon

Kalvin Accord

Karrik

Kase

Kathryn Ether

Keir Tanner

Keith

Kenny Dunne

Kenspeckle Grouse

Keratin

Kes

Kierre of the Unveiled

Kiln

Kimora

Kitana Kellaway

Korb

Kribu

Krull

Kumo

Laken Cross

Lamour

Lapse

Larks

Larrikin

Lenka Bazaar

Levitt

Liam Muldoon

Lightning Dave

Lillian Agog

Lily

Lord Vile

Lorenzo Mult

Lorien

Luciana

Luke Skywalker

Madame Mist

Madcap Fenton

Magenta

Mahala

Maksy

Mandat

Mantis

Martin Flanery

Master

Maverick Reels

Melancholia St Clair

Melissa Edgley

Mellifluous Golding

Memphis

Mercy Charient

Merriwyn Hyphenate-Bash

Metric

Mevolent

Midnight Blue

Militsa Gnosis

Minion One and Minion Two

Mirk

Misery

Miss Nuncio

Moloch

Moribund

Mortal

Morven

Morwenna Crow

Mr Chou

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Fedgewick

Mr. Jib

Mud

Mulct

Murder Rose

Muriel Hubbard

Myosotis Terra

Myra

Myron Stray

Nathanial Quiver

Nefarian Serpine

Nero

Nestor Tarry

Never

Nixion

Nj Maverick

Noche

Noonan

Nye

Oberon Guile

Oblivious

Obloquy

Octa Gregorian Boona

October Klein

Odetta

Ogre

Oisin

Omen Darkly

Operative

Oscar Nightfall

Owen

Palaver Graves

Parthenios Lilt

Pat Hanratty

Patrick Slattery

Patrick Xebec

Paul Lynch

Paulie

Peg Muldoon

Pennant

Persephone Grief

Pete Green

Petrichor

Phil Lynott

Philomena Random

Ping

Portia

To name a few

[fromtheboundlesssea]

What are the dragons of each kid in W&B and NGNM

NGNM

W&B

(But just the kids from oldest to youngest)

Celia - no dragon

Aemond - Vhagar

Aegon - Sunfyre

Helaena - Dreamfyre

Rhaena - Morning

Laeyla - Dreamwalker

Jaehaerys - Vermax

Cassandra - Jelmāzma

Baela - Moondancer

Lucien - Arrax

Aemma - Galewind

Alys - Tempest

Daeron - Tessarion

Geoffrey - Tyraxes

Elaena - Stormcloud